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Returning to Port Elizabeth in the early 1960s, he worked with a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name The Serpent Players. Working with a group of black actors (including Zakes Mokae), Fugard wrote his first play No Good Friday. Working in the court environment and seeing how the Africans suffered under the pass laws provided Fugard with a firsthand insight into the injustice and pain of apartheid. They started the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth before moving to Johannesburg where he was employed as a court clerk.

She later became a novelist and poet in her own right. He sailed around the world working on ships (mainly in the Far East).įugard married Sheila Meiring, now known as Sheila Fugard, then an actress in one of his plays, in September 1956. He then enrolled in the University of Cape Town but dropped out. After being awarded a scholarship, he enrolled at the local technical college for his secondary education. In 1938, he was enrolled at the Marist Brothers College - a Catholic primary school (although he is not known to be a Roman Catholic). His family moved to Port Elizabeth soon after he was born.

He considers himself an Afrikaner, but writes in English to reach a larger audience. His wife, Sheila Fugard, and their daughter, Lisa Fugard, are also writers.Īthol Fugard was born of an Irish Roman Catholic father and an Afrikaner mother. June 11, 1932, Middelburg, South Africa), better known as Athol Fugard, is a South African playwright, actor, and director. Language English Country Great Britain Medium Video Videocassette.

It was the first play to show defiance of apartheid, and played illegally and without a script in South Africa.

This was the final revival with the original cast, who also devised the play about two prisoners on Robben Island. Synopsis Video recording using a single camera of a performance of ‘The Island’ (1973) by Athol Fugard, scripted with performers John Kani and Winston Ntshona, directed by Athol Fugard, designed by the company, produced by the Market Theatre of Johannesburg, recorded at the Lyttleton Theatre in February 2000.